TAG: Sunspot Jonz

Oct04

MikeyMo & Sunspot Jonz Interview

Emcee Mikey Mo has set up shop long enough in the Bay Area –via Jamaica Queens, NY–to call San Francisco his home. His second album Rule By Decree, is coming out in October on 3sixty5 Records. Mikey is free-spirited and enjoys a good laugh, so it’s no surprise that one of the first crews he hooked up with (in addition to Hiero) was Living Legends.

“Me and Sunspot (Jonz), we just think alike, our minds are wired the same,” Mikey laughs, understanding that he is likening himself to the to the wildest Legend of them all. In the meantime, Sunspot continues to make music and enjoy life. He released his own Galaxy of Dreams album, and a side project, The Temper Twins, this Spring. Today, he’s working on a new album, Future Yesterday. But in the meantime we got the old underground rap vet together with the newbie to see what would happen.

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Feb21

Factor – 13 Stories (Review)

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13 Stories

Released by Side Road Records


Collaborations with Myka9 and Awol One may have opened doors for Factor, but he remains true to his humble roots producing for oddball regional rappers around Saskatoon, Canada. He hooks up with some of these old friends on 13 Stories, his 13-track compilation comprised of emcees telling their own stories in their own styles, and held together by his smooth production. The melancholic and mellow soul that makes up the last two-thirds of the album is dominated by tracks like Nolto's tale of a tormented child evolving into a tormenting killer on the slightly uptempo “Pulling the Wings Off Angels” or the alternative stress relief of Def3's “Luck Ducks.” The front half of the album holds the hard funky grooves, like opening track “Sounds Good to Me (Hip Hop),” an organ-heavy roller-rink anthem to hip hop that features Ellay Khule, Medusa (haven't heard enough from her recently!) and Joe Dub, who absolutely kills it with his hip hop history lesson.

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May04

Sunspot Jonz – Darkside Ov Heaven, The (Review)

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As an underground rapper, Living Legends-legend, Sunspot Jonz can't be largely concerned with wealth, nor does he really seem to aspire to be associated among the ranks of West Coast lyrical-Gods like Aceyalone or Abstract Rude. The only thing that's ever been apparent about the gung-ho-undergrounder is that he loves the fact that musically, he's independent. This privilege has always been idolized by Sunspot and worshipped through his frequent output of albums, which are often doused with his remarkably cryptic references and growling verbal-tantrums.

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Feb11

Video: A Living Legend Searching for a word

Peep this video by SunspotJonz of the Living Legends. Oh the power of words!

Sunspot Jonz – The Word Song
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Sep21

A message to groupies from Luckyiam

Baltimore show day.

This venue was fuckin' DOPE. It's called Rams Head (Hahaaa, I said “head.”) in downtown B-More and it still smelled new. All the staff was top notch from the sound people, to the barTENDERs to the hospitality girl, to the security all the way down to the ticket booth people. Professionals. Thank you very much.

Let me apologize to the city of B-more for anything foul I said in the last blog. Baltimore is dope. They have much flavor. I even met cool cops out there. Before soundcheck we had some time so Ant asks me if I felt like walking around exploring…Why the fuck not. We found this dope ass harbor side area with a pirate ship (complete with cannons) and there were some little dragon boats you could rent for …

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